Dieting is never easy. It has the tendency to make you a little bitchy, gives you a wicked headache, and leaves you hungry and willing to cruise through the Dairy Queen just to smell the waffle cones...

When the first Stephanie Plum novel, One for the Money, was released to much acclaim among the chickliterati in 1994, I was gifted with a copy by a friend very dedicated to that particular genre.
“It’s...

I grew up in a household with two rabid mystery readers, my father and sister. This means I have read my share of mystery novelists. To name only a very few: Arthur Conan-Doyle, Agatha Christie, John...